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136.

23.9.48, cont.  Skerries Bog, KD., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Proctos 6: all mtd. = 
Chalcids 7: none mtd.
Cynipids 5: 1 only mtd. =
Diptera 2 = Lonchaea chorea? ♀︎ & Tephritis pulchra?
Hemipteron 1 =
Coleoptera.  Chilochara bipustulata: common: 2 mtd.
Dragonfly Sympetrum scoticum & several seen
Bumble Bees  1 fresh ♀︎ Bombus sylvarum & many B. agrorum only
No wasps seen!

Many sawfly larvae seen & a few taken for Faris

Dunlop took many lepidoptera larvae but failed to get any of his desired Menyanthidis though I think I got & gave him one very young larva of this.


137.

23.9.48, cont.  Skerries Bog, KD.

Taken at 2 (same area as No.1) 2.0 till 4.20 P.M.
[53 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 12.3.53.]

Phaeogenes fulvitarsis ♀︎, ant. 24.
Gen. et sp.? ♀︎, ant. 20, round head, &c. = Micrope macilenta Wesm. √ new to Britannic list! - subsequently verified by J.F. perkins in lett. 5 May 1953.

Cryptinids 11 = 
Leptocryptus sp. ♀︎, ant. 27.
Phygadeuon? sp. ♂︎, ant 22.
Hemiteles areator group ♀︎, ant. 22.
Hemiteles sp. polished abd. ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 24 & 22, small, 2.5mm.
Pezomachus sp. 3♀︎♀︎, ant. 19, 20 & 20.
Pez. sp. ♀︎, ant. 20
Pez. sp.  minute ♀︎, ant. 18.
Pez. sp.  minute ♂︎, ant. 21.

Pimpla depositor 3♀︎♀︎, ant. 20, 20 & 21 [& another ? with darker legs, not mtd.]
Colpomeria quadrisculpta ♀︎, ant. 26.
Polysphincta tuberosa ♀︎, ant. 26.
Stenomacrus spp. 4 = St. cubiceps 3♂︎♂︎, ant. 26, 27 & 27.
St. palustris ♀︎, ant. damaged but 20+; very like the 3♂︎♂︎ (above) but basal flagellar segments larger & slenderer.
Orthocentrus cf. fulvipes ♂︎, ant. 30; basal [[?absc.]] of radius curved.
Picrostigeus? ♂︎, ant. 26; propodeum smooth & polished.
Cteniscus sp. 2(♂︎♂︎?); ant. both 24.
Ct. gnathozanthus? ♂︎(?), ant. 30.
Oedematopsis scabricula ♀︎, ant. 35.
Saotis nigriscuta Thoms. ♀︎, ant. 26.
Mesoleius sp. ♂︎, ant. 31, reddish abdomen.
M. sp. ♂︎, ant. 30, black abd.